Expanded-metal-splicing device.



PATENTED JUNE 18, 1907.

. A. W.-'RU SH. EXPANDED METAL. SPLIGING DEVIGEL APrLIGIATIQN FILED DEO.19,.1906.

Jaw 3 I enlarged plan of one of the parts of the splice with a strand of the expanded metal posi NITED STATES T NT oiunon.

AMos WILLIAM RUSH, or GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO NOR'IH- WESTERN EXPANDED METAL PORATION-OF ILLINOIS. I,

COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A COR- 'EXPANDED-IVIETAL-SPLIICINGI DEVICE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1907.-

Application filed December 19,1906. Serial No. 348,608.

Toall whom it may concern: I

Grand Ra ids} in the county of Kent and ,State of lVhchigamZh'aveinVented a new and,

useful Improvement in. Expanded-Metalv Splicing Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification. v

It is frequently necessary in the use otenpanded metal in buildings and' elsewhere, to.

attach sheets of metal together at their ends 'J orside edges, and the object of the present inventionfi's to provide a splicing device splice at right angles to the section given 1n 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of whereby the sheets may be securely united at their edges and the fastening be of a naturewhich will be permanent and-which will not be objectionable by. reason of its size or shape. r A My improved splice piece is adapted to receive. within itself strands of the united sheets, and for this purpose, it is made in two parts, each having a recess for the metal, and

after being positioned, the parts areriveted The nature of my improvement is iiilly which Figure 1 shows the device in use: and as uniting sheets ofthe metal. Fig. 2 is a sec' tion on the line 2-.2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an tioned in it, Fig. 4 is a view similar. to Fig.

-3 showing the endsof one of the sheets pos1..

tioned in the splice. Fig. 5 is a section of the Fig. 2.

' ,Fig. 5.- v

" Referring to said drawing, 10, 11 and 12 represent portions of diiferent sheets of.-eX-..

. panded nietalunited'by myinvention. As. shown, the splice consists of two plates 13 and 14, each having formed therein a groove 15 into which a strand of theeexpanded metal Witnesses:

may be inserted,"as best shown at Fig. '3. One of the plates receives a strand of one of the sheets to. be united and the other splice latei receives a strand of the other sheet. B e 1t known that I, A-Mos WILLIAM RUSH, a cltizen of the United-States, residing in ne of the plates is-Jprovided'with riveting, pins '16 at each end, andthe other plate is provided withopenings-to receive'such pins.

When put together, the rivets will project? -through.the openings and'are' then 'hammered down flushtherewith, aswill be understood fromFigs. 5 and 6.. As shown in 'Fig. 2, the splice isemployed" to unite the side edges of two sheets. It may, however,

- be used to unite the} ends of the sheets and is so shown in the case of the splice at the right of Fig. 1, the same grooves being adapted to receive the uncut end of two, strands of the sheet, as will be-better understood from Fig. 4. The device is extremely simple, is easily applied, forms a very secure attachment of sheets one to. another and is inexpensive.

.The walls of the grooves resist the drawing 'apart of the sheets when their side edges are united as well as-any longitlL i al.movernenir;-,-1- I V of either sheet relative to the other, and

where the ends of two sheets are united as in Fig. gthe triangular shoulders. at the ends of the coupling enter and engage the angles of the sheets and effectually hold them with the uncut butts-of the sheets in contact as plainly shown.

I claim 1. The splice for uniting sheets of expanded metal, consisting of grooved plates adapted to receive the edges or ends of the metal and to beiinited by riveting the shoulders formed by the grooves resisting both lateral and longitudinal separation of the sheets -united by the splice.

2. The'two part splice for uniting sheets of expanded metal, the partsof the splice having recesses or pockets shaped so as to adapt them to receive and hold eit-her the ends or :the side edges offthe sheets and also adapted to be riveted together upon the metal. 1

AMOS WILLIAM RUSH. 1

C. A. PRooroR, 'l lnenrm: W..LEvY. 

